Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair. C. S. Lewis More Quotes by C. S. Lewis More Quotes From C. S. Lewis True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. C. S. Lewis gazing true-friend goal We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. C. S. Lewis angel animal men No one can teach riding so well as a horse. C. S. Lewis practice-makes-perfect riding horse Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. C. S. Lewis introducing morality teacher We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us. C. S. Lewis god-love made may When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world C. S. Lewis christian inspirational world We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us. C. S. Lewis support causes real And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself. C. S. Lewis party taken doubt You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are. C. S. Lewis holy guidance ghost Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading C. S. Lewis permit reading book If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. C. S. Lewis lines pages thinking Our problem with desire is that we want too little. C. S. Lewis want desire littles Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses. C. S. Lewis wisdom mother children If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. C. S. Lewis god-is-love definitions kindness All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. C. S. Lewis invisible unattainable consciousness Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C. S. Lewis success positive inspirational The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis teaching education teacher The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C. S. Lewis inspirational life funny Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. C. S. Lewis generosity kindness inspirational Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. C. S. Lewis imagination literature order